Improvement in the mode op securing tires to wheels



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Tire Fastener.

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WILLIAM-E1. novatos HOLLY, MICHIGAN.

Letters Patent No. 77,981, dated May 19, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'IEE MODE 0E sEcvUEINe` TIEEs To WHEELS.

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'lO WHOM IT MAY CONOERNz,

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HOVEY, of Holly, in the county of Oakland, and State. of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Mode of Securing the Tires of Carriages; :and I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being' had'to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in providing the rim or felloe ofa carriage-wheel, A, as shown in the drawings, with suitable transverse-openings in the face of the sume for receiving parailel bolts vD, towhich are attached heads, C C, provided with holes adjacent to the base of theA bolts, for the admission .of `the point of the adjacent bolts. Y

Tire B, placed in position on rim-A, and bolts D, .inserted from opposite directions in the described groove prepared in rim for the same, under and near the tire, the point of` D passing through the hole provided for the same in head or plate C2, and the point of D2 passing through the corresponding hole provided for the same in plate or head C1, in which position the ends or points of the bolts are riveted to the outer sides of the plates, asV shown at 3, thereby forming and securing a perfect and rigid connection of the twofbolts. and securing the tire to its proper position with the rim of the wheel. I l I What I claim as my invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

The securing of `-tfire B to rim '.A,b yl inserting between the same parallel bolts -D D, provided with heads or plates C C, perforated `t`o receive the ends of. the bolts, and secured by rivetingthe same, substantially asf v described, and for the pirrposes set forth and shown. i

WM. H. HOVEY. 

